Hello, Am 01.12.2007 um 20:57 schrieb Arle Lommel:
On a side note, I wonder if curved key stems would help alleviate this sort of issue. I don't recall who makes them, but I once saw keys that had curved stems. Basically they were curved along a radius about 7 or 8 mm less than the wheel, so when they were pushed the moved in an arc rather than in a straight line and the action of the tangents was therefore geometrically identical for all the melody strings (I seem to recall it was on a four- chanterelle instrument).
this is an idea of mine which was realized in instruments by Alex Seidler and is now copied by Henry Renard.
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